i love this guy... => "So no, I'm not required to be able to lift objects weighing up to fifty pounds. I traded that for the opportunity to trim Satan's pubic hair while he dines out of my open skull so a few bits of the internet will continue to work for a few more days."

hi there. I'm building a Poky based system using apt for package management, and I would like to have an apt repo where I can put updates, so the devices can get them. I can do the device side of things (adding a sources.list entry should be enough), but is there any support in Poky for building the repo in apt format from the deb files?

fray: fyi, looks like you can use sstate-cache-management.sh with —stamps-dir= instead of an sstate mirror to pare down SSTATE_DIR, but you still need to do a second build, to get a stamps dir which is from a from-sstate build (e.g. no do_package stamps). https://gist.github.com/kergoth/3d73977975b17ea272ac — only a slight improvement over the second build + sstate_mirrors configuration, but it's slightly less setup. going to be altering our

the archives are already in your download directory for one. for two, they're already extracted by bitbake as well. see bitbake -e yourrecipe | grep '^S=' to get the path to the extracted sources. alternatively, use bitbake -c devshell recipe to drop yourself into a shell in its source tree